Natures Metropolis – Simply the best history of how capitalist cities transform the environment around them. About the development of Chicago: Canals, Railroads, & NY financiers plus lumber, pigs, wheat, and supermarkets. Highly recommended, I can’t recommend this book more.

Utopia

The Power Broker — This really the history of the most important Urban Planner in American History, who started out in the NY Park department building “Parkways”